Day of Translation 2026

Emily Wilson is Department Chair and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, holding the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities. Wilson attended Oxford University (Balliol College B.A. in Classics and Corpus Christi College M.Phil. in Renaissance English Literature) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature). She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance & Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She is an editor on the Norton Anthology of World Literature. She has published four books and many essays and articles, as well as verse translations of Seneca, Sophocles, Euripides and Homer. She lives in Philadelphia.

Seta Astreou-Karides (CY) is an artist, researcher, and performance maker from Cyprus, based between Athens and Nicosia. Her artistic and research practice engages with fiction, speculative methodologies, and the geographies of Cyprus. She studied English and Drama (BA) at Queen Mary University of London and is currently pursuing an MA at the Dutch Art Institute. She is a member of the Fisherwomxn collective, through which she develops collaborative projects centred on artistic research, publishing, translation, and study grounded in anti-colonial and feminist literature. Alongside Rallou Karella, she co-developed Translating Table, an open-source platform exploring collaborative and situated approaches to translation. As part of Fisherwomxn, she was an artist-researcher for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 2025 Architecture Biennale. As a dramaturg and performer, she has collaborated with artists and theatre-makers in Cyprus and Greece. She also worked as a series editor at Alexandria Publications, overseeing the Contemporary Translated Fiction series, distributed in Greece and Cyprus.

Soleil Davíd is a poet, writer, editor, and translator who moved from the Philippines to the United States at age 17. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Arkansas International, Cream City Review, and The Margins, among others. She received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Indiana University. Davíd has received support from PEN America, VONA, and Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

Nichole Gleisner is a writer, editor, and translator of French-language literature. She holds a BA from Boston University and a PhD from the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. She currently works as managing editor of Yale French Studies and a lecturer in the French Department at Yale University where she teaches courses on translation. Her translation of Benoîte Groult’s My Escape was published by Other Press and she is currently working on a translation of Sabyl Ghoussoub’s Beirut between Parentheses for Liverpool University Press.

Zeina G. Halabi is a writer, editor, and scholar of modern Arabic literature. Her research explores the contemporary legacy of 20th century emancipatory traditions, texts, and figures, with a regional focus on Egypt and the Levant. She is the author of The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile, and the Nation (2017 and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arabic Literature (2026). She is the Arabic editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.

Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator from Cardiff, Wales. She has translated books by Sara Abou Ghazal, Shady Lewis, Ahmed Naji, and Adania Shibli. Her work has been awarded the James Tait Black Prize for fiction and the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, named finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography and the EBRD Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. Her work appears in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, The New York Review of Books Online, Mousse, Frieze, and elsewhere, and has been anthologised in Best Literary Translations and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story.

Sabrina Jaszi is a literary translator based in Alameda, CA, working from Uzbek, Ukrainian, and Russian. Her published translations include the works of Salomat Vafo, Suhbat Aflatuni, O‘tkir Hoshimov, Reed Grachev, Nadezhda Teffi, and Alisa Ganieva. Her co-translation with Roman Ivashkiv of Andriy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things (Academic Studies Press) received the American Association for Ukrainian Studies’ Best Translation Prize for 2023–24. She is also a writer with stories and essays published in StoryQuarterly, J Journal, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Turkoslavia, a collective and journal devoted to Turkic and Slavic literature in translation. To learn more, visit Turkoslavia.com.

Kira Josefsson is a writer and literary translator working between Swedish and English. In her translation, Judith Kiros’s O was a finalist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and Johanna Hedman’s The Trio was on the shortlist for the Bernard Shaw Prize. Her two translations of Ia Genberg have been shortlisted and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She lives in New York City, where she writes on US issues in the Swedish press. She organizes with the National Writers Union.

Paige Aniyah Morris is a writer and translator of Korean literature. She holds BAs in Ethnic Studies and Literary Arts from Brown University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University, and is a PhD candidate in Comparative Culture at Sungkyunkwan University. The recipient of awards from the Daesan Foundation, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Fulbright Program, her translations have appeared in Korean Literature Now, The New Yorker, Words Without Borders, Azalea, Samovar, The Georgia Review, and more. She is the co-translator of Han Kang’s We Do Not Part.

Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Claudia Piñeiro, and Leila Guerriero. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Originally from Houston, Texas, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Amanda Sarasien is a writer and literary translator working from French and Portuguese into English. A recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, her work has appeared in The Common, The Massachusetts Review, West Branch, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her translation of Brazilian author Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones was published in spring 2026. She is past co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee and lives in Chicago.

Ena Selimović is a Yugoslav-American writer and co-founder of Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has received support from ALTA, ACLS, and NEA. Her translation of Nebojša Lujanović’s Cloud the Color of Skin was published in May 2024, and her translation of Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie is forthcoming in early 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis.

Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and Sinophone translator. Recent translations include Liu Xinwu’s The Wedding Party, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award, as well as novels by Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Lo Yi-Chin, Yan Ge and Yeng Pway Ngon. Their novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Earlier this year they were the Princeton University Translator-in-Residence, and served on the jury of the International Booker Prize. Originally from Singapore, they live in Flushing, Queens.

Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza, whose Kaya Days has been shortlisted for a PEN Translation Prize. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.